Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2015
How to improve Internet security after the disclosure of the Diffie-Hellman flaw

Now that it is known a critical flaw in the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol was exploited by the NSA to break the internet encryption, how to stop it? Recently a group of researchers has revealed how the NSA has cracked HTTPS, SSH, and VPNs rely on the Diffie-Hellman encryption by exploiting a wrong implementation of the cryptographic algorithm. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2015
Pawn Storm APT targets MH17 crash investigation

The Pawn Storm APT group set up rogue VPN and SFTP servers to target Dutch Safety Board employees involved in the MH17 crash investigation. July 17, 2014, Flight MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a missile in mysterious circumstances. Flight MH17 was flying over a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2015
Wikileaks releases CIA Director John Brennan emails

Wikileaks has obtained and immediately released the CIA Director John Brennan private emails. It is a first lot, others will be soon published. A few days ago a teen has violated the CIA Director’s private email account and leaked sensitive files including a 47-page  Mr. Brennan’s application for top-secret security clearance. The teenager also disclosed a partial Spreadsheet containing […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2015
A new person is leaking confidential documents on the US drone wars

A new collection of documents disclosed by a new whistleblower and leaked online by The Intercept revealed new inconvenient truth on drone wars. Many USA government documents were leaked in the past years, Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden showed the world that activists were behind. They are responsible for the disclosure of inconvenient truth. Governments […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2015
A young hacker violated the CIA Director’s private AOL email

A young hacker violated the CIA Director’s personal email account and leaked sensitive files including a top-secret application for a security clearance. A high-school student claims to have hacked the personal email account of the CIA Director John Brennan. CIA and the US law enforcement agencies are investigating on the case. The teen told the New York […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2015
The number of Governments using the FinFisher Spyware is increased

A new research conducted by Citizen Lab revealed that the number of governments using the FinFisher surveillance software has increased. Researchers at Citizen Lab have been monitoring the use of surveillance tools like FinFisher over the past years reporting its use by totalitarian governments. The researchers tracked the physical locations of servers belonging to the control infrastructure used […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2015
The ISIL is trying to hack American electrical power companies

US authorities confirmed that hackers belonging to the Islamic State (ISIL) are trying to hack American electrical power companies. According to the U.S. law enforcement, the ISIL is trying to hack American energy firms, the news arrives while the US Government  has charged for the first time a man of cyberterrorism. The news was revealed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2015
NSA broke trillions of encrypted connections due to a flaw

A flaw affecting the way encryption software implements the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm allowed the NSA to break trillions of encrypted connections. Edward Snowden has revealed to the world that the NSA was able to crack also the almost encryption to conduct a large-scale online surveillance. According to Snowden, the intelligence Agency was able to decrypt […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2015
U.S. charges a suspect with cyber terrorism for the first time

Cyber Terrorism, The Justice Department has charged a hacker in Malaysia with stealing the personal data of US service members and passing it to the IS group. For the first time ever the US Justice Department has charged a suspect for terrorism and hacking, the two practices converge in the concept of cyber terrorismcyber terrorism. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2015
NSA SHARKSEER program aims to detect and mitigate malware Zero-Day

The NSA SHARKSEER Program is a project that aims to detect and mitigate web-based malware Zero-Day and Advanced Persistent Threats using COTS technology. Every day, thousands of cyber attack rely on exploitation of zero-day exploits, even more sophisticated ATP groups trigger unknown vulnerabilities to compromise systems across the world. Intelligence agencies and research groups are investing […]